Kazakh blogosphere leads the chart
Our Kyrgyz-language bridge-blogger Mirsulzhan posts a chart in his LiveJournal, reviewing the most popular discussions in blogs. Based on a new service, provided by Russia’s leading web companies Yandex, it is possible to scan the blogosphere by keywords and visualize the outcome in a graph.
So, what Mirsulzhan did was typing names of five Central Asian countries, and the robot calculated which of them provokes more discussions in blogs. According to the chart, Kazakhstan is leading, stirring up three to four times more voices to write on the situation here. (Green stands for Kazakhstan, orange - for Uzbekistan, red - for Tajikistan, blue - for Kyrgyzstan, and violet for Turkmenistan).
There are possibly several reasons why Kazakhstan is better represented in the blogs - wider Internet access, hot political season and post-electoral muses etc. However, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are surprisingly outstripping Kyrgyzstan, which is (1) number 2 in the region in terms of Internet availability, (2) relatively more open in terms of free speech, and (3) permanently lively in terms of politics. What do you think?
All links are, certainly, in Russian.
on September 24th, 2007 at 2:44 am
Adam,
Keep up the good work. I enjoy reading your blog. We don’t get much info re KZ in the mid-west of the USA.
Ted.
on October 1st, 2007 at 12:47 pm
I can’t compare to other countries, but in general Kazahstan has decent infrastructure but not outstanding access everywhere–even in Astana Internet is expensive and spotty. But Kazakhstan is also pretty open in terms of free speech and also very open to Western innovations and technology. I’d think those are the main reasons why KZ is leading the blog revolution!